Browsing by Author "Shuma, Christina Jerome"

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    Enhancing employability skills among higher learning students through career guidance and counseling: experience from the University of Dodoma and St. John’s University of Tanzania
    (The University of Dodoma, 2017) Shuma, Christina Jerome
    This study assessed the role of career guidance and counselling services in enhancing employability skills among students in higher learning institutions in Tanzania based on experience from The University of Dodoma (UDOM) and St. John's University of Tanzania (SJUT). It employed a descriptive research design using qualitative and some aspects of quantitative research approaches. A total of 123 respondents including lecturers, wardens and students from UDOM-CoED and SJUT were involved. Purposive and random sampling techniques were used in selecting respondents of the study. Questionnaires, interviews and focused group discussion were used to obtain data from the respondents. Qualitative data were analyzed according to their pattern of descriptions from the respondents to generate themes and sub-themes while quantitative data were processed and analyzed using SPSS (version 20) to compute frequency and percentages of responses. Findings revealed that higher learning students were aware of the available career guidance and counselling services however, the study found that, career guidance and counselling were inadequate something that was seen to threaten student's acquisition of employability skills. Apart from their importance in promoting student's employability skills, career guidance and counselling services were found not to be formalized within the higher learning institutions; no professional career counsellors were found. It was only the lecturers and wardens who were providing some career guidance and counselling to students besides the work load they had in the institution. Strategies to improve students‟ employability skills in higher learning institutions were also reported to be insufficient; Based on the findings above, it is recommended that HLIs in Tanzania should see the possibilities of preparing students in various competence areas such as academic excellences, career aspect, personal and social skills. Through establishing career guidance and counselling units and employing professional career counsellors will facilitate student's access to career information that will help to improve employability competence. Focusing on achieving good grades in the class alone limits the chances for students to acquire employability skills that ensure their confidence in the labour market today.
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    Enhancing employability skills among university students through career guidance and counseling
    (IGI Global, 2021) Shuma, Christina Jerome; Basela, January Marco
    This chapter explored the role of career guidance and counseling in promoting graduates' employability skills in Tanzania higher learning institutions. A total of 123 respondents were involved. Data were collected through questionnaires, interviews, and focused group discussion. The study revealed that HLIs do not have professionals in career guidance and counseling who are solely employed to offer such services; the task is left to lecturers and wardens. Career guidance and counseling services were also found to be inadequate and not formalized thereby threatening students' acquisition of employability skills. The study recommends that higher learning institutions (HLIs) in Tanzania should see the possibilities of preparing students in various competence areas such as academic excellence, career aspects, personal and social skills. This can only be achieved by establishing comprehensive career guidance and counseling units within the institutions.